Chapter 11 – Newbies Are Sexy.

“This monster is characterized by slimy tentacles and a hard body! What is the name of this monster?”

“Correct answer! Poison Tentacle!”

“Newcomer! I’m sure you said you had a solid body, right? Are you even living in your ears like a hermit crab!? How dare you allow such a thing!”

Lucia hurriedly raised her hand to answer Tiaran’s rapid-fire question, but perhaps it was a wrong answer, and what came back was his harsh words.

“Correct answer, Armored Star Fish.”

“That’s correct! Add dinner points to newbies!”

“Wow!”

“Ugh!”

Then, Asta calmly raised his hand and answered correctly. Lucia bit her lip in frustration and looked at the scoreboard he had drawn appropriately on the sand floor.

There, there were sticks drawn under the names of Lucia and Asta that seemed to indicate their respective scores. While Asta’s poles exceeded 10, Lucia’s poles were lagging behind with 6 poles.

“Looks like the newbie doesn’t want to eat dinner tonight? If you don’t get 12 points, there’s no dinner!”

The reason for giving such a score was because of the simple rules of the game that Tiaran created. Listen to the characteristics of the monster he is talking about and guess them within 5 seconds. The rule is that if you don’t get 12 correctly, you can’t eat dinner.

“This isn’t fair! You can’t even think of the right answer in 5 seconds!”

Lucia felt unfair. If she thought about it calmly, how many monsters could she guess? However, the characteristics of the monster he was talking about were too simplified and the time limit of 5 seconds paralyzed her mind.

‘Asta has already guessed almost everything!’

What made Lucia even more mortified was that Asta got more of her correct answers than she did. She didn’t particularly call her stupid or belittling.

On the contrary, if there was such a person, she would have taken the initiative to get angry. It was just that Lucia was the one who used her head while accompanying Asta, so her pride was hurt for some reason.

“I think our newbie misunderstands the intent of this game.”

“… Intention?”

Tiaran seemed to have read her complaints and continued speaking.

“Now, this is not a test to see who knows and can explain monsters well, but to develop observation skills and agility.”

“Observation and quickness…”

“You wouldn’t expect a monster to move kindly and slowly and lunge at you, would you?”

“Ugh.”

Lucia was furious, but she realized it was a valid opinion. Even yesterday, he was caught because he couldn’t respond to the monsters that attacked him, so he doesn’t have anything more to say?

“Are your questions resolved? Let’s continue!”

“Hey!”

Fortunately, the girls managed to get 12 points and were able to qualify for not having to starve for dinner. However, the joy of being able to eat dinner is short-lived.

“Now that you’ve digested it through the game, it’s time for the real deal!”

“Eh?”

“Wait a minute! Wait a minute! The buff we received from you just disappeared?!”

“That’s why we’re going! Because then we can check your original skills!”

They stuck out their tongues at Tiaran’s meticulousness.

“Growl!”

In the end, they were scared when they saw five kobolds staring at them. These guys, who have a dog’s head and a human body and are hitting wooden clubs menacingly, are reminiscent of gangsters.

Anyway, they are low-level monsters that are comparable to goblins in classification, so if it were Asta and Lucia, they could easily deal with no matter how many there were. If it were normal.

“I can’t move my sword properly…”

Asta lost all of her strength after sparring with Tia Ran in the morning, so she couldn’t move the sword she normally carried, and Lucia’s situation was not good either.

If Maka uses [Kito Fulguetra], Which can be called her special move, as well as [Raudo Fulgor] Even once, all of Maka’s energy will run out, and the only technique that can be used in succession is [Raudo Tellum].〈 Br〉

“I have almost no energy right now! You…!”

“Stay strong! Newbie! Stay strong! Newbie!”

“Is it time to leisurely cheer?!”

In a situation where she doubted how many times she would be able to use even that, she looked to Tiaran for help, but he was cheering with a flag he didn’t know where it came from.

“Kung! Kung!”

-Kyaang!

“Ugh, Lucia. Quickly.”

However, Asta, who was nearby, was already blocking and dodging the kobold’s weapon and rolling around, so Lucia wasted no time talking to him.

“Let’s wait and see when the work is done! [Laudo Tellum]!”

In the end, Asta took the time and Lucia was able to kill her kobolds by using Maka to kill the monsters.

“You! Are you aiming for this? You’re definitely aiming for this!?”

After barely defeating all the kobolds, Lucia protested to Tiaran, who was standing behind her with her arms crossed.

“Of course I aimed!”

“No matter what, you’re so confident! What on earth are you thinking about living? You!”

On the contrary, the sight of him proudly saying that he had put them in danger was beyond absurd to the point where I felt fear.

“How exhausted are you guys right now?”

“How exhausted are you? I can’t even use a marker properly?!”

“Huh, I don’t think I can even carry a sword anymore.”

“That’s all.”

“Are you listening to our story?!”

Lucia wondered if the guild leader had really recommended a strange adventurer as their companion.

“Even in that condition, the bronze-level kids easily defeated the struggling monsters.”

“Huh? You’re having a hard time against monsters like this?”

“I was very weak.”

After hearing his story, they looked puzzled and looked at where the kobolds were, but two had died after being hit by Asta and the other three had also died after being hit by Lucia’s Maka.

“Their names are exactly those called Forest Kobolds and Beginner Hunters.”

“If it’s class E, it’s no big deal, right? But why?”

“So the standard for newbies is too high.”

‘It’s back again.’

Lucia was confused as to which of Tiaran’s true selves was, but decided to focus on the story for now.

“The reason they are called beginner hunters is that they are skilled at guerrilla warfare using the forest environment.”

“Guerrilla warfare. There is no reason to give that opportunity.”

When Asta asked as if he didn’t understand what he was saying, he nodded.

“What level are newbies now?”

“First of all, it’s silver.”

The reason they earned the rank of Silver as adventurers was because they proved their skills to the guild leader with a letter of recommendation.

“Huh, you jumped two steps. Have there been any problems so far?”

“Well, what’s the problem?”

“That’s right. Oh, there was no problem.”

In fact, Lucia and Asta were shocked because they had only recently become adventurers and had no sense of the level of monsters or adventurers.

“That’s why you can’t even master the simple behavior patterns of forest kobolds.”

Tiaran saw them avoiding eye contact and roughly figured out what had happened and shook her head. From the looks of it, he was really a newbie with good specs who couldn’t even do the bare minimum of adventure.

‘So I don’t even know how to deal with goblins properly.’

In the case of the totem, you could tell that it was made by a goblin just by looking at it.

“Did you know that there might be a hostage when you defeated the goblins yesterday with an advanced spell?”

“Ugh! Who doesn’t know that? I used that spell because I knew there were no hostages when I searched!”

In order to procreate, goblins used other races, namely human women, as mothers. Most monsters generally prefer that method, but goblins are a bit unusual.

The guys from yesterday seemed to have had a shaman, so they had recently branched out. That’s why the hostages were not seen separately.

“Searching is one thing, but Machias usually don’t use such advanced spells when dealing with goblins or crocodiles.”

“Yes? But once you use it, everything can be done quickly and easily, right?”

That was why Tiaran was confused whether they were newbies or not. So he thought she was simply testing the performance of the buff.

“Yes, but how many lesser spells can you use with the energy needed to cast those advanced spells?”

“I think it’s about 70 to 80 times?”

“How many times can you kill all of yesterday’s goblins and crocodiles with that minor spell?”

“Wait a minute… Ah.”

Lucia seemed to have finally realized this. The number of goblins was 20 as seen, or about 30 if there were more insides, and there were at most 15 swamp crocodiles.

If it was said that it could be hit once per animal, it meant that it could be easily defeated with less than a single high-level spell. And hasn’t that been proven even now?

“Newbie, what do you think your problem is?”

He asked Asta this time.

“… Swordsmanship?”

“Why?”

“Because my strength is strong?”

“That’s the correct answer.”

Why did swordsmanship develop? If so, it was usually because skill was more important than strength. However, if the force is abnormally strong.

“Your swordsmanship was basic, but it was at the level of tearing down a monster with force.”

“Wow.”

In fact, it would be better to assume that the wounds left on the monsters Asta killed were torn off by a huge chainsaw, not a sword.

Likewise, the current state of the kobolds was like that, so it was enough to show them as an example. The force was so strong that there was no need to develop technology. Speaking of which, people with that level of power can sometimes be found among adventurers who are gold or higher, let alone platinum.

“Newbies are too clumsy and strong. If you fight a real silver-level adventurer, you will lose. So, follow me without saying anything.”

“”…””

Lucia and Asta were speechless, perhaps convinced by his words. Just as I was trying to continue hunting monsters.

“Huh? What is it?”

“Wait a minute. That’s it.”

“Dungeon?”

They soon encountered a cave or dungeon in the shape of a lion sticking its head out of the ground and its mouth wide open.

“I haven’t heard that there’s a dungeon like this around here? You… Huh?”

“Lucia. Over there.”

Lucia looked puzzled and tried to ask Tiaran, but he was no longer next to her. Instead, Asta pointed to the front of the dungeon while pulling on her clothes.

“Ulyyaap!”

Tiaran was punching with all his might towards the dungeon.

-Cow! Damn it!

After making a loud noise and confirming the entrance to her cracked dungeon, he looked back at them and gave her a thumbs up.

“This dungeon is a dungeon you can enter.”

“Why sooooo!!!!”

Lucia screamed and Asta opened her mouth in a daze.